UAB Briefs: Spring commencement, Yo-Yo Ma concert, art show
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GRADUATION
The regular academic year at UAB will come to its usual dramatic conclusion this weekend with two days of spring commencement activities at Bartow Arena on campus.
A commencement and doctoral hooding ceremony for nearly all graduate programs will be held at Bartow on Friday, April 27, at 6 p.m., according to a UAB news release.
Unlike prior years, students receiving master’s degrees will get their diplomas along with the doctoral candidates. There will be no separate doctoral hooding ceremony on Saturday.
There will be two ceremonies for undergraduates at Bartow on Saturday, April 28, at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., according to the release.
Undergraduates in the School of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences will be awarded diplomas during the morning ceremony.
Undergraduates in the schools of Business, Engineering, Public Health, Health Professions and Nursing will receive their diplomas in the afternoon ceremony.
About 715 students will earn graduate degrees for spring 2018, and 1,423 will earn undergraduate degrees, the release states.
About 1,500 will participate in the university’s ceremonies.
An estimated 2,138 students are scheduled to graduate from UAB this spring.
Tickets are not required; but seating for the commencement ceremonies are first come, first served.
Bartow Arena doors will open at 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
The ceremonies will be recorded and added online for viewing at uab.edu/commencement about a week after the ceremonies.
YO-YO MA
World-acclaimed cello virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma will headline the 2018 Viva Health Starlight Gala on Sunday, May 6.
The Gala is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center and benefits the center’s programming and community outreach and education.
The legendary Ma has recorded more than 100 albums and has won 18 Grammy Awards.
He is known for performing new or familiar cello works, taking part in chamber groups and playing music from outside the Western classical repertoire.
Tickets are $175 ($150 for members of the Alys Stephen Center).
All tickets include a pre-performance cocktail reception and seating for the performance.
A VIP dinner package is also available.
For tickets or information, call 975-2787 or go to alysstephens.org.
BFA SHOW
Rachel Ozley, "Inside of Diabulimia," 2018
Birmingham art lovers can still see the 2018 UAB Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibition, which features work from 17 graduating art students, before the show closes this weekend.
A free closing reception for the exhibition will be held at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts on campus on Friday, April 27, from 5-7 p.m.
And the show -- presented by the Department of Art and Art History -- will remain on view at AEIVA for one more day on Saturday, April 28, from 12-6 p.m.
The exhibition is free and open to the public.
The artists are Jennifer Lemons, Bailey Barrow, Anne Marie Cartwright, Caroline Etheriedge, Morgan Fowler, Camille Goulet, Rachel Hendrix, Cima Khademi, Alexandra Kulick, Cameron Larsen, Courtney Lassiter, Meghan Malone, Joni Moore, Amanda Morgado, Rachel Ozley, Tyra Robinson and Emily Stroud.
For more information, call 975-6436 or go to uab.edu/cas/aeiva.